Robots to be our lovers by 2050, not just in Massachussetts
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted June 22nd 2008 8:09PM
posted June 22nd 2008 8:09PM
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Ugh... now who's gonna sue me for impregnating their daughter?
They better not want to cuddle after sex :D
Uh... hold on guys - these will be cold, heartless, unfeeling creatures who would suck you dry and cost a damn fortune.
They could call them:
Womanlike
Intelligent
Vivavious
Electronic
Systems
Be afraid...
raise your hand if you have a wife AND she would let you have one of these.
Funny your comment should come after that acrostic poem for wives...There's a joke or punchline to be delivered here, but I am far too tired to come up with one. If only I had something that could do that kind of grunt work for me.
Will they play Doom
Why not? Real wives are doom and crysis wrapped in one.
crisis*
I would totally pork the chick in the middle.
Thats not a chick, thats actually a doll.
You dollfucker.
Remember to download the latest security update in your bot if you don't want to have your "intimate moment" interrupted...
"oh yes! I love it! ohhhh!.....bzzzzt...hello, I am a rich distant relative from Nigeria and I need your help to...."
The conference was the IdeaCity '08 conference in Toronto Ontario. A group of 50 fantastic scientists, literary experts, performers etc. showed off their passions.
I volunteered at the conference, and between Levy, Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Ben Bova, Satava, Peter Diamandis (who announced his plans to start a rocket plan racing league), Ray Kurzweil (who announced his handheld reading device that can not only rotate, flatten etc etc pictures of text, but also read in 7 languages, and translate) Curtis Suttle, Steve Scherer, Richard Preston, Ezra Levant... etc etc etc I had a blast.
Most interestingly, Richard Satava, a military scientist/surgeon, gave his views into the future of surgery, gene therapy etc... but half of his statements seemed like articles from engadget :P It was a fantastic experience, like TED and EG... but in Canada.
ahh my bad i hadnt rtfa... and i wasnt aware that Levy had spoken at so many other places in such a short amount of time. This article is based on his talk elsewhere, although Im sure that the content is similar/the same.
im gonna take a risk here, and try replying to my comment a second time...
I made a mistake, and assumed that the article was based on the conference I went to just under a week ago, instead of this other one that he also spoke at. Im sure that the content was the same though >_>
And people wonder why terrorists hate us?
Am I the only person that took offense to the statement about Mass?
This really bothers me that Engadget as a company and it's Staff writers are flairing an Anti-Homosexual agenda.
Adds a new meaning to "open box item" on the 'Egg.
What category would they sell them under? "Miscellaneous Equipment" like Computer Shopper did 20 years ago for the Russian brides classified ads?
I'm still holding out for the holodeck lol
Since so many of you seem incapable of making rational decisions in choosing a partner in human form, what makes you think you'll be any more competent with an automated variety? If you're not with someone whom you respect-who also respects you-it's not a gender issue, it's a 'you' issue. Many people are capable of having happy, healthy relationships, so it's your own fault if you're not one of them.
While I'm sure that there are plenty of women who don't have much in the way of personal value to contribute to a relationship that would indeed be intimidated by something like this (like how many men have felt inferior to vibrators for ages now), their main benefit will be to act as Darwin expeditors.
Get back in the kitchen and bake me a pie.
Ummmmm. Doesn't this post underscore the reason we would need these.......
Why would I go in the kitchen and make someone a pie, when I have a personal chef to do that for me whenever I want? Maybe if you didn't believe that it was appropriate to bark orders at others (based on their gender or any other criteria), you'd get farther in life. It's not cute, it's not funny, it's just a pathetic demonstration of someone who needs to overcompensate for their insecurities within the safety net of being online.
I made valid points, blatantly stated as usual, but instead of trying to rebuff them with alternate viewpoints, facts, or questions, the response is some sort of passive-aggressive nonsense. Seems that the real issue this would solve is that no real, decent woman would want that kind of 'man' - so if you're stuck with a crappy woman, who's fault is that?
It was a joke. And you fell for the bait.
We get it. You're a strong woman. And no, not everyone who reads this article or even purchases a sex doll (in the present OR in the future) is a misogynistic piece of crap incapable of having a meaningful, intimate, respectful relationship with a woman. I know, because I'm one of them.
So relax, doll. Pop a Valium or two, take a power nap (with or without your pocket rocket; that's up to your discretion), and then wake up refreshed and ready to keep chipping away at that glass ceiling. Just because we have penises does not mean we're out to get you.
I'm not the one who fell for the bait, doll. I mean, I must have been totally serious in my comments; women don't have senses of humor, right?
Keep up with the delusional stereotypes, though. Very becoming.
Lol, I think I like you. Thanks for making me smile.
I'm still waiting for pie...
Flapping your lips isn't going to make one by themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPnv8UvKFzc
lol
Ok, so you want a real reply? Well, Weblogs will not let me reply what I really think of you, but how DARE you call my wife a bad person, and worthless. You can make up things about me all you want, but when you bring my wife into the picture, you're going to have some problems.
Man, dominant: Get back in the kitchen and bake me a pie.
Woman, obedient: What kind of pie?
Woman, dominant: How about some humble pie?
Woman, gamer: The pie is a lie.
The chick in the middle looks like she's already bitchin about something. Not a good start!!!
Robot lovers? Read Fake Plastic Love:
http://www.amazon.com/Fake-Plastic-Brian-David-Johnson/dp/0595430619/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214247400&sr=8-1
If they're from 2050, why do the fembots look like porn actresses from the 1980's?
Better than porn actresses from the 70's
Actually, I disagree. 70's porn is like a nostalgic journey back to days of Amazonian bushes, when you penetrate the cave and attain the Golden Idol only to find a boulder chasing you out the cobwebby cavern.
Anyway, fond trips down memory lane with Indy aside, I find 70's porn to be higher-quality overall in terms of actresses and acting. I certainly prefer it to 80's.
The woman from the 70s may have been more naturale but most of the times the porn companies took any girl they can get, rather than looking for quality girls, as they do now.
Which is exactly how they acheived that "wife-next-door," attainable, completely natural and yet sexy as hell look in just about every vid. I'm telling you, man; porn was so much better before the inception of the breast augmentation or cake-up was in style.
Nope. Give me foof and poof any day. You can take the curly-q's.
But it wasn't sexy in every video, in the eighties they have a higher % of sexiness per video.
Perhaps to you. Personally, I don't find girls who are more plastic than Barbie with so much hair spray it looks like they're wearing helmets with curly-fries glued all over them who are confused as to what the proper length of their pubic hair should be and are fucking to neon lights and shitty synth tracks very attractive.
Nor do I find run-on sentences attractive. I hate myself.
*sob*
The 80's women had much better hair, also, have you seen Deep Throat? It's a horrible 70's porn.
Dude... Deep Throat, Debby Does Dallas, and Behind the Green Door (which might have actually been in the 60's... not positive) all revolutionized the industry and helped make it the mass-media conglomeration of fluids and sexy that it is today. You probably wouldn't be so familiar with porn if it weren't for Deep Throat and a few select others, so bear that in mind the next time you criticize it.
When I tell it, "I love you" will it answer back or will it tell me "Can not compute"
It will tell you that based upon analysis of stress levels in your voice and the presence/lack of certain pheremones, you don't really love her. Instead, you are simply interested in her for the physical companionship she can offer you.
Then, she will submit an inquiry regarding whether or not this particular dress makes her look fat.
That's when you pull out the portable EMP and get ready to run.
Sick bastards...
Yeah feminist are sick...
I'm still waiting for pie...
Flapping your lips isn't going to make one by themselves.
Well, once a guy does have a choice between throwing down 10-20 thousand on a really nice engagement ring, wedding and honeymoon, after having spent who knows how much for how many months, or making payments on a totally compliant companion that does all the chores while you are at work and then is there to please you in any way totally on your schedule... Watch out ladies.
Oh, and that's not even talking about how much more money after all the marriage related stuff men pay for a Divorce.
These things will be selling like hotcakes.
I don't get the problem here, The porn industry has been making sex toys for years. The life-like dolls have been around for some time now. There's no surprise the ultimate sex toy would one day be a robot.
Anyone thinking this going to replace human interaction or damage a person's ability to have real emotional relationships, doesn't realize how many who are already using sex toys.
Ok, so you want a real reply? Well, Weblogs will not let me reply what I really think of you, but how DARE you call my wife a bad person, and worthless. You can make up things about me all you want, but when you bring my wife into the picture, you're going to have some problems.
A sex robot with artifical intelligence? My goodness. I'll have an intelligent bed partner for the first time. :-)
Anyways, joke aside, love dolls, prostitutes and a wife fulfill 3 different needs, sex-wise. (instantness, variety, and optimality, respectively.) You'll know when (or if) you get there. (Not everyone will.)